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10 Best Movies Like Joseph Knight

If you loved Joseph Knight, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solo...

#2
Man to Man

Man to Man

2005★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape....

#3
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

1995★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When...

#4
Outlaw King

Outlaw King

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne....

#5
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites....

#6
Song of the South

Song of the South

1946★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joseph Knight for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation....

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